Lots Of Rain In These Parts. Lotta Rain.
Lots of rain in these parts. Lotta rain.
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Family Fourth. Box with instructions in Chinese. Like we'd have read them anyways... #camp #nephewstillhastenfingers
Ted loved to cruise around
An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:
Ted couldn’t afford his own car as a kid, but loved to cruise around San Diego with those who did have wheels. Bill Skelley, a teammate of Ted’s on the 1937 Padres, had a 1929 maroon Chrysler roadster, and they’d glide down Broadway with the top down, or zip through Balboa Park. When they passed a golf course, and someone was getting ready to tee off, Ted would reach over and honk the horn to try and disrupt the golfer. “Just fooling around,” Skelley says.
Girls? Forget it. “I never went out with girls, never had any dates, not until I was much more mature-looking,” Ted wrote in his autobiography. “A girl looked at me twice, I’d run the other way.”
(Photo: Ted Williams tipping his hat at the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway Park.)
Sarah Jane Cook Dakin and Edmund H. Cook via the City of Boston Archives on Flickr.
Oh, if there only were a Circus Library. My favorite thing about libraries? That they exist and are magical. My favorite thing about circuses? That they exist and are magical.
The Book of Speculation GIVEAWAY
The tumblr community has been hugely helpful during the long walk to publication. I’d like to give something back.
I’m giving away A Box of Speculation. It contains: an Advance Reader Edition of my novel, The Book of Speculation, a complete set of antiqued tarot cards (in their own box), and a hand-bound notebook in which you might start your own novel. Neat thing: the cards were aged and stained by me. Other neat thing: I bound, aged, and gilded the notebook in the same manner as the original manuscripts of The Book of Speculation. Pretty cool, no?
To enter, reply to this post or message me with your favorite thing about libraries, or your favorite thing about circus!
A winner will be chosen at random, and will be notified via ask box on 5/23/15!
@billbrettboston and a few of his friends... At the Kennedy Library for a forum on #BostonIrish.
At #bea15 #BookExpoAmerica #BuzzPanel looking forward to getting some reading done. #books
That's me "letting" Sean get in on a photo with my BFF, the Red Sox World Series 2013 trophy. I'm going to keep this photo up until fall 2014. (Then maybe a trip to Pittsburgh will be in order?) With State Rep. Sean Garballey
Helen Drinan is one of the many women in Boston: Inspirational Women by Bill Brett and Kerry Brett with, blush, me, from Boston's Three Bean Press
Just some musings and electronic gatherings of an ink-stained wretch turned social media junkie. As JADAL says: No trees were destroyed in the sending of this organic message. I do concede, however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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